What is Workflow?

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What is Workflow?

• Workflow or Business Process Management (BPM)
  consists of Processes, States and Actions.
• A Process (e.g. Customer Order fulfillment) is
  accomplished by a series of several steps called
  States. (e.g. Order received, fulfilled,
  shipped, billed, completed)
• An Action moves a process from one State to
  another. (Order entry, fulfillment, shipping,
  billing). The action may be user intervened or
  automated flow.

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Ganges Workflow

• Allows quick workflow enabling your existing or
  new applications
• Gives you complete control into your business
  process for better collaboration and
  accountability.
• Lets you rapidly design, change and deploy
  automated processes with minimal effort.

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Ganges Workflow Architecture
Workflow Designer
Any web, windows application built with any
development environment
Workflow Engine Residing in SQL Server 200x
database, along with application database
External systems and Databases
Workflow Web Services, API
SQL Server 200x Database Server
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Ganges Workflow Engine

• Works with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005
  database applications.
• Easily integrate with external applications or
  databases in any platform such as Unix,
  mainframes.
• Ganges Workflow engine is tightly integrated with
  Microsoft SQL Server.
• Ganges Workflow allows creating multiple workflow
  processes and child-processes.

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Ganges Workflow Engine

• Provides a powerful rule based automated flow
  from one state to another.
• Provides tight security on what action can be
  performed by what user
• Customizable events allows user to program what
  is needed to be done when a record reaches a
  State or when user performs an action.
• Events can be programmed in Microsoft .NET
  languages.

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Ganges Workflow

• Extensive APIs and interfaces are available to
  integrate with any external application in any
  platform.
• In summary, Ganges Workflow consists of an
  Engine and developmental platform to build
  workflow applications.